THE SERENE SEVERITIES OF TYPOGRAPHY
by Horgan, Paul
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About This Item
[Middletown, CT]: Art Laboratory Wesleyan University, 1966.. Small quarto. Cloth and paper over boards, printed label. Narrow loss from left corner of cover label, touching the 'T', a couple of minor rubs, otherwise about fine. First edition in book form. One of thirty copies only, set and printed by hand in Bembo types as a class undertaking: "... printed by the hands of the following on a Washington press, Karl Furstenburg, Alan Thorndike, Bruce Hartman, Wendy Cowie, Kristine Blum, James Patrick, Jeri Cantliffe, James Ruby." This copy (#5) bears Paul Horgan's affectionate year-of- printing presentation inscription to two close Middletown friends and collaborators. One of the multi-Pulitzer Prize winning author's scarcest publications, even within geographical proximity of its origin. OCLC locates five copies: Yale, Newberry, Swarthmore, SMU, and BM Lyon. KRAFT A35.
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- William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- THE SERENE SEVERITIES OF TYPOGRAPHY
- Author
- Horgan, Paul
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Art Laboratory Wesleyan University
- Place of Publication
- [Middletown, CT]
- Date Published
- 1966.
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